Ep 157 - Steel this Book w/ Zhana Kurti, Dave Ranney, Kingsley Clarke

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The late Noel Ignatiev's comrades Zhana Kurti (from Hard Crackers) and Dave Ranney and Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization discuss the release of Acceptable Men, a memoir of Noel's time in the '70s as militant worker in the larger US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana.

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Show notes:

Dave Ranney's Living and Dying on the Factory Floor review:

https://www.angryworkers.org/2019/11/26/living-and-dying-on-the-factory-floor-by-dave-ranney/

Hard Crackers Journal:

https://hardcrackers.com/

Eulogy of Noel Ignatiev by Jarrod Shanahan:

https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/

Truth and Revolution: A history of the Sojourner Truth Organization: https://www.akpress.org/truthandrevolution.html

Song: Dave Dudley - Steel Worker Blues

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'll grab my hat and my steel told shoes.
0:07.0	I'm a hog-working guy with a steel workers blues.
0:17.0	Okay everybody, welcome to a special Labor Day episode of the Antifada.
0:25.0	Jamie and Sean are off today because they are laborers, but I, on the other hand, am fully
0:31.5	declasse. So you can all learn a lot from me about abolishing yourself and becoming
0:37.2	an earthbound whatever singularity, as I'm sure you can learn a lot from the works of
0:42.0	Nol Ignatiev and our guests we're going to be talking about
0:46.8	one of Noel's books acceptable men something of a memoir of his time working in the Gary Steelworks in Gary, Indiana. And so we have three
0:56.7	guests today to talk about that book. We have Kingsley Clark, a badass labor lawyer and former member of the Gary Branch of the Sojourner
1:05.8	Truth Organization with Noel.
1:08.1	We have Dave Ranny, who edited the book, Acceptable Men, and a former factory worker in Southeast Chicago,
1:15.3	also a former member of the Sojourner Truth Organization with Noel,
1:19.0	and the author of Living and Dying on the Factory Floor, a book about working in factories of Chicago,
1:24.1	Southeast side in the 70s.
1:25.7	And finally, we have returning champion, Jana Kirti, editor of Hardcrackers, and a former friend of Noel. Thank you all for joining us. Happy Labor Day. Why don't we just start off by talking, you can talk a little bit about yourself and your relationship with Noel and why you, what do you think is important about his work?
1:44.3	I wanted to start off quickly by saying this is Kingsley that actually the book is
1:50.8	out and we've sold a box of books already through AK and hope to sell many more.
1:59.0	We've had two launches of the book in the Bay Area. I wanted to start by saying that we should keep in mind that when
2:08.5	Noel went into Gary Works, he had already worked for at least 10 years on the docks in New York plants in the Chicago area and was approximately 30 years old by the time he went to work in Steele.
2:25.0	And as some of the younger listeners might or might not know,
2:30.0	the individual tactic at that time in 1971 was to go back into the plants and mills and docks
2:40.0	where the hardcore industrial working class was and what we hope would be the
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